On filesystem level, a snap is effectively an isolated filesystem that is mounted at boot time as a virtual device via the 'loop' devicemount.Īnd see that all your snaps are mounted as filesystems You could say that they are complete mini-systems which are 'sandboxed' This is because of security and this is why they are slow to startup (they have to load a lot more than the application only). Snap packages are a kind of containers, so although they run on the same kernel as other packages, they have their own libraries, filesystem and environment and share as little as possible with the host system. Snap is indeed a package manager but snap-packages are not regular packages like. deb filesĪnyway I thought snap was merely the name of the package manager, why are they slow on start up then? It turns out from what I read they will discontinue the original. Apparently snap startup daemon is slow, perhaps it can be automated on the system boot or might this make the pc slow for whatever use I had started it up for eg something other than using the browser? deb file and it wont be the snap version and its interesting to read some of the files may be compressed to save space so it might be possible to uncompress them instead? I remember I had a game called Return To Castle Wolfenstein in the 90s or 2000 and it had compressed data files, I was able to unzip these, then zip them back up using a weaker compression algorithm and it made the game running much faster though I doubt I'd be luck enough to do that on Ubuntu.
Mozilla firefox browser very slow install#
OMG are they thick? Anyway I thought snap was merely the name of the package manager, why are they slow on start up then? Time for another browser then, shame.Įdit: So I have found I can install the Firefox package directly from the.
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